I am an Associate Member of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors. They have an excellent magazine, Definitely enjoy the high quality stori...

If near the coast it could be an estuary.

A marker built from native stone was erected in 1938 by the WPA, but it is located 50 feet to the west of the actual tri-point. A stand-on plaque was ...

@murphy Above. Am I correct in thinking that new descriptions in NC must be tied to GPS explicitly?

Denverite.com does not believe I am human. As President Nixon once said, "I am not a bot."

@kscott Aha, I see now where you are located. That's a huge county. My wife's mother was born and raised in Gunnison County, so she has relatives...

Anyone interested in the Kansas/Oklahoma border or simply interested in how surveying was conducted in 1857 should enjoy this account. Note the comme...

The northwest corner of Oklahoma is a pincushion as described here /p> The southwest corner of the Oklahoma Panhandle is a special case for a pi...

The Cimarron Meridian serves only the Oklahoma Panhandle. The east end is the 100 degree of longitude and the west end is the 103 degree of longitude...

The reason for the Oklahoma Panhandle goes back to the 1820 Missouri Compromise.   Today fewer than 1% of Oklahomans live in the 168 x 34 mil...

Curve? What curve? We don't need no stinkin' curves around here. Keith and I fought about that a few iterations back when I'm not sure what the nam...

@kscott Does the continental divide pass through Mesa County?

@norman-oklahoma Thanks for correcting me. I just typed a new post and when I went to Add Reply, I lost it completely. Here goes on why I confus...

Oklahoma has three different initial points. Two for the eastern part and the western part of the main part of the State and a third for surveying in...

Different states were handled differently on so many things. NormanOklahoma mentioned the standard parallels in Oklahoma being every four townships (...

If there is a list of comments that are for sure going to require some corrections to be made, I will add in typos and such that I would not mention i...

It was somewhere around 1993 when I sat in on a lecture by Knud Hermanson from Maine. He provided a host of visuals depicting critical elements of a ...